Our work depends on your support and involvement. Here are some easy ways you can help right now!
Careers
Careers
Whatever your expertise, you'll find an environment that encourages discovery, teamwork and professional development.
You can contribute to conservation in a variety of fields including Science, Stewardship, Marketing, Education, Finance, Operations and much more. Click here to check out career openings at the Albany Pine Bush.
Community Science
Community Science
Join our community of local scientists and help us collect data!
The Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission is looking to engage people in science work at the preserve, both in helping to collect data and in getting a detailed look at what we do and why. Our Community Science Program seeks to collect data that can contribute to our scientific understanding of the ecology and management of the Preserve while offering meaningful engagement opportunities to our constituency.
Community Science opportunities are offered as the need arises. The schedule for both Community Science programs and our science lecture series can be found on our calendar.
The Pine Bush is one of many extraordinary and rare places around the world. You can learn about, enjoy and protect plants, animals and their habitats wherever you live. There are simple things that each one of us can do to minimize our impact on the environment and make it healthier. Click here to see what you can do.
Donate
Donate
Preserve staff receive support from the Friends for projects that include bird banding equipment and advanced license bird banding training.
A donation to the Friends of the Pine Bush Community shows that you care about and want to help sustain the Friends programs.
Your contribution can fund school bus trips for students, protect land, support interns, expand research capabilities and preserve habitat restoration or support educational programming at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Discovery Center.
You decide how you want to make a difference by choosing a specific fund.
As a Friend, you have the satisfaction of knowing you’re contributing to the stewardship and appreciation of the unique natural communities found in the Albany Pine Bush Preserve.
Volunteers are working to make the preserve safe and enjoyable for all who visit and live here.
The Pine Bush provides hundreds of volunteers and partners with rewarding opportunities for hands-on conservation work. Click here to check out our volunteer opportunities.
Starting on Tuesday September 3 at 6 AM, the parking areas at four trailheads will be temporarily CLOSED to allow for preserve visitor parking area paving. Locations to temporarily close are trailheads #2 Rapp Barrens, #7 Madison Avenue Pinelands, #9 Kings Hwy Barrens and #12 Truax Trail Barrens.
Parking at these four trailheads will remain closed until Wednesday, September 11 to allow the pavement and parking space paint to cure. Please visit any of our other eight preserve trailheads during this time.
February 07, 2024
Prescribed Fire Notifications
We cannot provide a specific schedule for prescribed fires in a given area due to the unpredictability of weather and fuel conditions. If you would like to be notified the morning of a prescribed fire, please subscribe below.
November 30, 2022
Preserve Management: Pine Barrens Restoration
The Kings Highway Barrens, at trailhead #9, is temporarily CLOSED while habitat restoration work is being completed. This site was cleared of invasive black locust trees in early 2024. Next the site will be stumped, graded and then planted with native pine barrens plants. This is the first phase of restoring these 38 acres back to a pine barrens. Please view the interactive trail map to see the tree removal locations as well as other preserve areas you can visit during this time.
Click here if you need a mobile friendly version of our trailmap.
Please contact Stewardship Director, Joel Hecht with any questions or concerns. 518-456-0655 or jhecht@albanypinebush.org
October 12, 2020
Hunting, Fishing & Trapping
Hunting, fishing and trapping are recreational activities that are carefully regulated in the preserve and across NYS.
April 03, 2019
Tick Awareness
Please be aware that ticks, including deer ticks (also known as black-legged ticks), are present in the Albany Pine Bush Preserve as well as other natural areas in our region.
